contributed by McIntyre
DigiAlmty (Ikenna Iffih), a 28-year-old Northeastern University student, has been charged with electronically breaking into the computer systems of NASA and the Pentagon. In April of 1999 DigiAlmty was charged with illegally gaining access to the systems of the Defense Logistics Agency and several commercial systems. Since then the case has been expanded and now includes intrusions of Northeastern, NASA and the pentagon. DigiAlmty has also been accused of illegally copying some files and destroying others. If found guilty, DigiAlmty could face up to ten years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. Attorney Donald Stern said "All in all, the defendant used his home computer to leave a trail of cybercrime from coast to coast." (If this guy "left a trail from coast to coast" what took them so bloody long to drop the hammer?)

DigiAlmty (Ikenna Iffih) was a member of the Northeastern Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Mirror of ACM Member Page
Mirror of DigiAlmty's Home Page at Northeastern
Mirrors of DigiAlmty Defacements

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Associated Press - via Boston Globe
Reuters - via Wired

contributed by no0ne
A group of ISP's have joined forces with ICSA.net, an internet security firm, in an effort to prevent denial of service attacks like those that downed major web sites. They have created the Alliance for Internet Security to make sure that each other's systems and facilities are not used as agents to launch attacks against the other providers. Each member company must pledge to secure its own internal systems, add filtering technology to prevent spoofing, and provide support for others to do the same. Founding members include Cable One, Cable & Wireless, Digex, Global Crossing and its U.S. subsidiary Global Center, GTE Internetworking, Level(3), Road Runner, and Sprint.

ZD Net

contributed by no0ne
The proposed ban on the upcoming hacker con Y2hacK to be held in Israel is not gaining support. Speaking in a meeting of the Committee for Scientific and Technological Research and Development's Michael Eitan said that "canceling the conference would be a mistake, and a missed opportunity to learn from the hackers". The sentiment that "hackers are not always crackers" was also echoed in the meeting.(Glad that they understand that in Israel)

Wired

contributed by Weld Pond
Microsoft said that it was hit with a syn-flood attack last Tuesday morning. The attack slowed down website responsiveness between 3 and 7 percent. No damage occurred and the no access into Microsoft Systems was gained. (And why is this news? This sort of thing happensall the time.)

Reuters - via Excite

contributed by William Knowles
A new Windows version of Trinoo has been released. This new version will make it much easier to launch distributed denial of service attacks similar to those that recently hit Yahoo, ZDnet, CNN and others.

C|Net